Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their …

achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing systems in Africa is disappointing. Only South Africa and a few post …

The global economic crisis beginning in 2008 has come at a very inopportune time for Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …

this exogenous variation, we show that during 2002-07, mining activities in response to the global commodity price … China's WTO Accession): it is not enough to assume, given Africa's high spatial inequality, that local economies will …

This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … identification strategy is based on a unilateral causation between mining and district inequality. The findings show that when … minerals are aggregated, mining increases district inequality. But an analysis of individual minerals shows that mining affects …

Companies in the oil, gas, and mining sectors face ever intensifying scrutiny over their environmental, social, and …

Africa should industrialize. Without structural change it cannot sustain recent growth. Economies with more diverse and … sophisticated industrial sectors tend to grow faster. But since 1980 Africa has deindustrialized. The paper shows that between 1975 … and 2005 the size, diversity and sophistication of industry in Africa have all declined. An industrialization strategy …